Kampuchea: The Deadly Rite of Spring

Each year, when monsoon rains sweep in from the Indian Ocean, three
separate guerrilla armies emerge from their sanctuaries to challenge
the 180,000 Vietnamese troops who have been occupying Kampuchea since
1979. And each year, when the parched rice paddies sprout nothing but
stubble, the Vietnamese seek revenge, rolling out their tanks in an
effort to eliminate the 45,000 armed "nationalists" opposed to the
Vietnamese-backed government of President Heng Samrin. But this year
the Vietnamese have instigated something more than the usual rite of
spring. In their most deadly and deliberate offensive...